Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

I thought today would be filled will studying but it was filled with inspiration. Lars and I went to LACMA to see the exhibit on Stanley Kubrick before it leaves. It is amazing. He created so many of my favorite films. I took tons of photos but I will post this one. It is from my most favorite Kubrick film, Dr. Strange Love. It is a scene that is not in the film. Apparently the movie was supposed to end with a pie fight between the USA and Russia. They shot it for several days but thousands of pies later it was cut as to not make the movie too farcical.

I read the Bundler man pages and set up a schedule for what I want to get done this week. Tomorrow I am studying in Santa Monica before I meet up with Jessica. Lars and I are going to commute together and I'm going to bring my bike with me so I can zoom around easily.

JQuery

The JQuery workshop was good. It was my first look at it and it is amazing how much you can do with such little code. It is readable code but gosh it's so full of punctuation. I saw this }()); }), }), } Ahhhhhhhh. Back to Ruby. 

I im-ed Jessica about Monday; she suggested a desk to buy. I have one like it at home for computing so it's perfect. I am going to pick that up this week. Maybe I'll get green legs.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S29932181/

The fresh new Echo Park

 I checked out the opening of Echo Park yesterday.  It is beautiful! A study from Scotland suggests that you can ease brain fatigue by strolling through a leafy park. 

Then we watched Todd Solondz's Dark Horse. One more bit of inspiration tomorrow in the form of LACMA's exhibit on Kubrick and it's back to more Ruby.

JQuery Preparation

Today I worked on typing, Code Academy Ruby Track, styling this blog and prepping for the JQuery Workshop I am going to tomorrow.  I think the workshop will be good but I wish I hadn't already paid to go because I just want to study Ruby.

Rails Girls Summer of Code!

Yesterday I found out that I was accepted to do the Rails Girls Summer of Code! 

I am so incredibly excited and grateful to have this opportunity to learn and to contribute to the Ruby community by working on an open source project. Joyce Hsu will be my pair and Jessica Suttles will be our coach. It is going to be an intense summer. We are going to start on July 15th until then I am going to study as much as I can. 

Today I went to the L.A. Ruby Meetup at Scout Advertising. There were 9 of us from the Eastside/Westside Ruby & Rails Study Group 

I started going through the Code Academy Ruby Track again today. 

Machiko sent me a link to typing practice for Ruby. I am not a fast typist but I am going to work on getting faster. 

These are all the teams selected to do Rails Girls Summer of Code: 

1. Carla (Australia) and Anja (Germany) to work on: Sinatra and Farm Subsidy Open Government Data
2. Cecilia (Argentinia) and Mayn (Norway) to work on: Open Source Job Board 
3. Jen Diamond and Joyce Hsu (both USA) to work on: Bundler 
4. Laura and Adriana (both Colombia) to work on: Rails (Conductor) 
5. Magdalena (Poland) to work on: impress.js 
6. Maja and Nina (both Slovenia) to work on: Spree 
7. Nicole (Germany) and Laura (USA) to work on: RailsApps and Rubinius 
8. Saskhi and Pallavi (both India) to work on: Diaspora 
9. Wiktoria and Alicja (both Poland) to work on: Species+

Cal Tech Meetup RomyonRuby

While Machiko, JZ, Joyce and I were studying in Pasadena at Float we met a fellow female rubyist, Romy. She was so excited that she came with us to the CalTech Meetup where we talked about monkey patching and the slice method from the Ruby Koans.  There were a couple of Perl programmers there tonight who have decided to cross over to Ruby after not being able to hire Perl programmers at their jobs.
Eric and I worked on setting up NerdTree on my vim.